Captain Henry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1stViscountCrookshank, CH PC (27 May, 1893 – 17 October, 1961), known as HarryCrookshank, was a British Conservative politician.
Crookshank was born in Cairo and educated at Eton College and Oxford University.
He was raised to the peerage as the ViscountCrookshank in 1956, a title which became extinct upon his death.
Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (June 12, 1897– January 14, 1977), British politician, was Foreign Secretary for three periods between 1935 and 1955, including World War II and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
Eden's surviving son, Nicholas Eden (1930-1985), known as Viscount Eden until 1977, was also a politician and was a minister in the Thatcher government until his premature death from AIDS at the age of 54.
December 1955 - Rab Butler succeeds HarryCrookshank as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons.
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